EPA's enforcement results for fiseal year 2017 - covering the last few months of the Obama administration and the first nine months of the Trump administration - show a significant decrease in facility inspections and evaluations, civil investigations and criminal environmental cases opened compared to the agency's FY 16 results. The agency's press release on the Feb. 8 results touts several increases including roughly $2.98 billion in criminal fines, restitution and mitigation compared to $207 million in FY 16, though the data arc largely due to enforcement actions launched by the Obama administration, even if they were concluded by the Trump administration. Compared to FY 16 figures, many of the categories show large drops in FY 17, which ran from the last few months of the Obama administration starting in Oct. 1, 2016, through President Donald Trump's inauguration and the first nine months of his administration up to Sept. 30, 2017.
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